nent was professedly a Baptist, he ever flung defiance in the face of any Padobaptist minister, there is a deep silence in the history of his versatility; but that he has been, and now is, by his polemical prowess and challenges, extremely formidable to the poor Baptists, we know to our cost. How singularly happy must our author be, as to the constitution of his mental frame! For, vulgar souls, after having challenged, changed, and rechanged, in the genuine Edwardian mode, would have had apparently different feelings, and have behaved in a different manner. In such a case, which indeed is extremely rare, a man who fears God, and whose mind is of the common make, when assigning the reasons of his last conversion, would certainly write with an appearance, at least, of modesty, of self-diffidence, and of shame, for his instability; lest, though ever learning, he should never come to the knowledge of the truth respecting baptism. Retaining all his integrity, and increasing in candour, he would lose much of his former confidence and selfimportance; whereas, the candour of our opponent seems to abate, and his confidence to increase, in proportion as he becomes conspicuous for versatility. No one that has for a long time written against us, had apparently so many motives to have treated us with modesty, with caution, and with genuine candour; yet, among our modern opposers, there are few, in whose publications there is an appearance of such dogmatism, self-importance, and illiberality. This, however, must be considered as owing to the uncommonly robust constitution of his mental frame; and should not be ascribed to any radical defect, either of modesty or of candour. Great in his mental abilities, he cannot but be conscious of them; and great in learned acquisitions, he must feel his own importance. But forgetting, on certain occasions, that intellects, whether in their native or polished state, are not all of a size; nor, like his own, able to ken truth as it lies in a well; he sometimes, in the vigour of his opposition, apparently treats those with supercilious contempt, whom he dearly loves, and whose feet, were it necessary, he would condescendingly wash. To conclude: What a prodigious loss must "the Baptists' side" have sustained, by such a one deserting to the camp of their opposers! The Baptists have, alas! lost a great stock of mental abilities, together with an immense quantity of Latin and logic, of modesty and of candour. Those rare accomplishments might have been employed in defending and adorning their cause, had not that melancholy desertion taken place. Over such a mournful event, they cannot therefore, but greatly lament; and the very candid reasons he gives for taking his leave of them, are wonderfully adapted to increase their pungent sorrow! THE END. INDEX To Quotations from, and References to, the Writings of Modern Pædobaptists. ADAIR, i. 332. N. B. i. ii. iii. denote the Volume. Beaulieu, iii. 99. Addington, Dr. i. 72, 84, 162, 362, 390; Beckmanus, i. 43; ii. 100. ii. 145, 161, 173, 187. Ainsworth, ii. 324; iii. 342. Robert, i. 110. Allix, ii. 242, 308, 309. Alsop, Vincent, i. 26, 66, 69, 101, 130, Alstedius, i. 55, 245. Altingius, i. 44, 145, 181, 247, 255; ii. 247; iii. 377, 380, 444, 445. Ambrose, Isaac, i. 424. Andradius, i. 307. Anonymous, i. 7, 32, 49, 54, 64, 89, 90, 91, 100, 148, 153, 171, 199, 205, 233, Apollonius, ii. 209. Arnoldus, ii. 115. Barrow, Dr. i. 149; ii. 101, 141, 230; Basnagius, i. 399; iii. 269, 286, 450. Bayle, i. 284. Bellamy, Dr. ii. 278. Bellarmine, i. 23, 251, 293, 323, 391; Bengelius, i. 156, 169; ii. 159, 217, Bennet, Benj. i. 100; ii. 446. Beza, i. 42, 179; ii. 3, 136, 201, 206, Bisset, i. 300. Blacklock, Dr. i. 429. Blackstone, i. 77, 96; iii. 150. Blake, i. 161, 204, 279; ii. 54, 114, Bochartus, i. 156. Boehmer, iii. 377. Bernerus, ii. 9. 420; Bohemius, Johannes, i. 369. Bolducius, ii. 17. Bona, Cardinal, ii. 230. Bonnet, ii. 359. Borlase, Dr. iii. 189. iii. 39. Buddeus, i. 3, 41, 64, 70, 138, 165, 180, Burgess, Dr. Cornelius, iii. 447. Burmannus, i. 44, 143, 179. Burnet, Bp. i. 6, 185, 257, 270, 275, Butler, Bp. i. 4. Samuel, ii. 49. Buxtorfius, i. 427; iii. 450. Canus, ii. 240. Capito, Wolfgangus, i. 370. Cowper, iii. 348. Carpzovins, ii. 8, 14, 33, 80, 168; iii. Cressy, ii. 228. 275, 453. Caryl, i. 317. Casaubonus, i. 44, 92; iii. 213. Castalio, i. 141, 179. iii. 453. Crosius, ii. 142. Cruden, iii. 413. Cumming, Dr. iii. 112, 132. Cunæus, ii. 146. Cattenburgh, i. 370, 410; ii. 73, 103; Curcellæus, i. 182, 368; ii. 243. Cheyne, i. 281. Chillingworth, i. 121, 318, 393, 440; ii. Clagett, Dr. i. 8, 378, 402, 403; ii. Clarke, Dr. S. i. 147, 246, 269; ii. 69. Cloppenburgh, ii. 19. Cusanus, Cardinal, i. 122; ii. 118, 132. Daillé, i. 156, 176, 247, 388, 405, 408; Danish Catechism, i. 42. Davenant, Bp. i. 138, 172; ii. 202. Day, Mr. George, iii. 219. De Courcy, i. 50, 186, 332; ii. 282; De Graffiis, Jacobus, i. 361. Doddridge, i. 1, 54, 66, 71, 82, 92, 109, D'Outreinius, or Doutrin, i. 153, 178, Gomarus, i. 41; ii. 104. Goodman, Dr. i. 6, 396; iii. 100, 113. Grosvenor, Dr. i. 10. Grotius, i. 92, 139, 167, 179, 255, 387, 417; ii. 16, 97, 106; iii. 213. Hackspanius, ii. 191. Hall, Archibald, i. 22, 25, 30, 31, 289, Bp. i. 138; iii. 181. Erskine, Dr. i. 271, 345; ii. 71, 80, Hardy, i. 149, 194. 153; iii. 452. Harris, Dr. i. 395. Hascard, Dr. ii. 443, 452. Hasæus, i. 184. Hasselquist, i. 239. Hebden, i. 376; ii. 95. Hedericus, i. 57, 124, 125. Heidanus, i. 180. Heideggerus, i. 54, 148, 164, 194, 245, Heineccius, i. 36, 350; ii. 125. Henry, Matt. i. 204, 231, 243, 263, 266, Henry's Continuators, ii. 221; iii. 186. |